Re: Variable Length Records Management....

From: JRStern <JRStern_at_gte.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:46:06 GMT
Message-ID: <3b2639f6.1087553_at_news.gte.net>


On 11 Jun 2001 15:05:04 -0500, "Art Pollard" <pollarda_at_lextek.com> wrote:
>Thanks. I've looked at some of this especially in Knuth. However,
>I believe that allocation issues, data and freelist management within
>a database is quite different in many respects and while normal
>memory management has some applicability, it does not translate
>well in its entirety. This is why I'm looking to see what papers
>are available about this specifically.

Well, I suppose it's all got to take place in a multithreaded, ACID environment, and you might have concerns about the physical layout on the disk, ... do you want to list a few concerns you believe are specific to databases?

Joshua Stern
JRStern_at_gte.net Received on Tue Jun 12 2001 - 17:46:06 CEST

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